Scores of Not Knowing: Labanotation

A workshop for the 34th inernational biennial ICKL conference in Columbus, Ohio. In collaboration with Teresa Heiland and Jonah Carrel, choreographer /artists. 

Knowing nothing about the language of Laban, I created Movement Scores from this language for experts to perform. My lack of knowledge becomes a tool for the discovery of new movements.

This workshop brought John Cage’s practices to front of mind as we use chance and games as to have new experiences, rather than recreating old ones.

This years ICKL conference explored dance notation’s past and future through the theme *Scoring Gaps*.

Labanotation is a system for analyzing and recording human movement (notation system), invented by Austro-Hungarian choreographer and dancer Rudolf von Laban (1879-1958, a central figure in European modern dance), who developed his notation on movements in the 1920s